Hero Lab on the iPad released!

[rickjonzz]

Two questions / feature requests:

(1) Is there a way to have ranged touch attacks as a weapon? (For ray spells and the like.)

(2) In a related question, is there a way to roll the damage for a spell?

That said, it's really impressive and I like it a LOT.

[Colen]

Originally Posted by djc664

Awesome App!!

So dropbox support I would second, FWIW.

In the meantime, I did the ol' Open In from dropbox and that is good enough for now, but it looks like the file in drop box gets copied into the Hero Lab app. From there I'm just editing a local copy, not updating / changing the Drop Box original - is that correct?

In a perfect world, I'd like to be able to put all the player sheets in one place (dropbox) and have everyone use them during game, but then all updates and changes from game make it back to the portfolio original(s). Great for GM reference and use between sessions as well.... Journal updates could be made, secret information staged for the players, equipment could be stolen by unscrupulous NPCs that just happened to be very helpful when they were setting up camp...

So far, though, it's awesome. I'm super excited about using it at my table. Thanks Lone Wolf!

Proper Dropbox support is something we have planned for a future version, but we wanted to get the basics out now so that people can use the app.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by rickjonzz

(1) Is there a way to have ranged touch attacks as a weapon? (For ray spells and the like.)

Normally I would say simply install the file "TouchAttacks.user" from d20pfsrd but you can't install a .user file. I will get that fixed by creating a .hl file to install the file instead. Then if you use Safari to download the file from d20pfsrd it will ask you to open it in HL and you will get a weapons called "Ranged Touch Attack" and "Touch Attack" you can add to your character sheet then.

Will do that tonight.

[Colen]

Originally Posted by rickjonzz

Two questions / feature requests:

(1) Is there a way to have ranged touch attacks as a weapon? (For ray spells and the like.)

(2) In a related question, is there a way to roll the damage for a spell?

That said, it's really impressive and I like it a LOT.

1) You can see your melee and ranged touch attacks by tapping the "Attack Bonus" table entry - they should be displayed in the description text there. I'll see if we can figure out a good way to have them displayed in the weapons list; the problem is most characters won't want to see them, so I'm not sure it's appropriate to always show them there.

2) Not currently. We'll be expanding the dice roller to allow you to roll whichever combination of dice you want, but calculating the appropriate damage for each spell is a big chunk of work that Hero Lab doesn't do yet.

[Colen]

Originally Posted by Talonious

Either this can't be done on a Mac or I can't find it when I have my iPad attached to my Mac with iTunes open. Can you give instructions? Hopefully this will be a built in feature soon because I have already had to import the same character three times and I can't remove any of them.

Thank you.

Go to the "File Sharing" section in iTunes, find the Hero Lab app, select the file(s) you don't want, and press the Delete key on your keyboard.

Better file management support is definitely something we'll be adding in the future.

[Colen]

Originally Posted by DarkHerald

No I have an iPad. I used the wrong description when I typed my question.

Try the following link - can you access the app from it? https://itunes.apple.com/bm/app/hero...er/id628821549

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Colen

1) You can see your melee and ranged touch attacks by tapping the "Attack Bonus" table entry - they should be displayed in the description text there. I'll see if we can figure out a good way to have them displayed in the weapons list; the problem is most characters won't want to see them, so I'm not sure it's appropriate to always show them there.

Honestly Colen I don't know why you guys never added my TouchAttacks.user file to HL core. It gets used ALLOT as its also a great thing to have for pen and paper sheets as it keeps the stuff on the front page of your character sheet.

In this case you would simply be able to add the weapons when you want or don't want. For my houserules data set its even setup to correctly apply TWF rules for a magus when they Spellcombat. Ancient1's character sheet even now looks for my "touch attack/ranged touch attack" weapon on print out to correctly display stats for a Magus also.

Maybe its time again to look at a simple solution like this?

[DarkHerald]

Originally Posted by Colen

Try the following link - can you access the app from it? https://itunes.apple.com/bm/app/hero...er/id628821549

It asks me to change store accounts. Says product not available in South African store

[Unseelie]

Perhaps it hasn't propagated to all of the non-US stores yet...

[Colen]

Originally Posted by DarkHerald

It asks me to change store accounts. Says product not available in South African store

I just checked the app management page for Hero Lab, and it's definitely flagged as being available in South Africa. We've also had downloads from as far afield as Brazil, Australia, Denmark, and China, so the app is definitely available in non-US stores.

I'd recommend contacting Apple support about this issue - they may be able to explain why you can't see the app.